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    <title>Instructions for Loritaire</title>

     <author>
       <firstname>Mike</firstname>
       <surname>Olson</surname>
       <affiliation>
         <orgname><ulink url="http://Fourthought.com">Fourthought, Inc.</ulink></orgname>
         <address><email>mike.olson@fourthought.com</email></address>
       </affiliation>
     </author>
     <revhistory>
       <revision>
         <revnumber>1.0</revnumber>
         <date>2000-12-11</date>
         <authorinitials>MO</authorinitials>
         <revremark>Initial release</revremark>
       </revision>
     </revhistory>

     <legalnotice>
       <para>This document can be freely translated and distributed. It's released under the <ulink url="http://www.linuxdoc.org/manifesto.html">LDP License</ulink>.</para>
     </legalnotice>

     <keywordset>
       <keyword>4Suite</keyword>
       <keyword>help</keyword>
       <keyword>demo</keyword>
       <keyword>Loritaire</keyword>
     </keywordset>

    <abstract>
      <para>Instructions for 4Suite demonstration program Loritaire
      </para>
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  <sect1>
    <title>Introduction</title>
    <para>Loritaire is a made up name for a game of solitaire that was introduced to me by Lori Ogbuji.  It is a game played with two decks of cards.</para>
    <para>After the cards are dealt, there will be thirteen piles of cards face up, and one pile of cards face down.  See the dealing section for the rules of dealing.  The thirteen piles of face up cards will be arranged in two rows, one of seven, and the other of six.  Starting from the upper left pile and working right, then down, each pile is labeled by the card it represents in a suit, starting with Ace, two, three, four, etc., all the way to King.
    </para>
    <para>The pile of face down cards is the stack of cards that you play from.</para>
    <para>Once game play starts, there will be eight piles called targets.  There are four targets for counting upwards, one for each suit starting with Aces, and four targets for counting downwards, one for each suit starting with Kings.</para>
    <para>A turn in the game is started by taking the top card from the playing stack.  Then the pile coresponding to the value of the card is picked up.  If the top card was a four of spades, then the fourth stack in the top row of piles is picked up.  The newly turned over card is placed on the bottom of the pile.  The pile is then laid out in front of the user, and it can be used to play from for the remainder of the turn.  To play, cards are moved from the current pile (the one in front of the user), and the top cards of all of the rest of the piles, onto the target stacks.  The cards must be moved in proper order (four counting up from the Aces, and four counting down from Kings).  Once there are no more moves, the current pile is returned to its original place, and the turn is complete.</para>
    <para>The player continues this way until there are no more cards in the stack of playing cards.  The objective is to complete all eight of the target stacks.</para>
  </sect1>
  <sect1>
    <title>Dealing the cards</title>
    <para>In the online version, dealing is done automatically for you.  This section is only included in case you would like to try the game with real cards.</para>
    <para>To begin, shuffle two decks of standard playing cards.  The cards will be dealt, face up, into the thirteen piles.  There are five rules that define how cards are added to the playing stack.  If, after a card is added to a pile, any of these conditions are met, the next card (or two, or three) is kept face down and put into the playing stack.  Then dealing to the piles continues.  The rules are as follows:</para>
    <simplelist>
      <listitem>If a King dealt, the next two cards are added to the playing stack</listitem>
      <listitem>Is an Ace is dealt, the next card is added to the playing stack</listitem>
      <listitem>After the seventh position is dealt, the next card is added to the playing stack</listitem>
      <listitem>After the thirteenth position is dealt, the next card is added to the playing stack</listitem>
      <listitem>If a card is dealt, and it has the same value as the position of the pile it was dealt to, then the next card is added to the playing stack</listitem>
   </simplelist>
   <para>If multiple conditions are met, then multiple cards will be added to the playing stack.  The most cards that can be added to a playing stack in a turn are four.  If a King is dealt into the thirteenth pile, then there are two cards added for a King, one because the thirteenth pile received a card, and one because a King (card value of 13) was dealt into the thirteenth pile.</para>
  </sect1>
  <sect1>
    <title>The online game</title>
    <para>When a new game is started, the board will be displayed but the only input option is to start a new game.  The pile will be in the middle of the screen, and there will be four targets on each side of the piles.  The stack of playing cards will be positioned below the piles.  To play the next card (start a turn), click on the Stack.</para>
    <para>When a turn is started, the next card is drawn for you, and the pile that it represents is displayed below the playing stack.  Each card displayed (as well as all of the top cards in the piles) will have two buttons next to it, one to move the card to its appropriate "Up" target, and one to move it to its appropriate "Down" target.</para>
    <para>Next to the playing stack are two lines of statistics.  The first is how many cards have been moved to their proper target location.  The second is how many cards are left in the playing stack.  When there are no more cards in the playing stack you will be asked if you'd like to play again.</para>
  </sect1>
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